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VARIOUS BLACKSMITHS AND FARMERS.
Catalogue reference: HC502
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This record is about the VARIOUS BLACKSMITHS AND FARMERS. dating from 1885 - c.1975.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HC502
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Title (The name of the record)
- VARIOUS BLACKSMITHS AND FARMERS.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1885 - c.1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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The collection comprises records relating to a number of rural business concerns, formerly deposited with the Museum of East Anglian Life
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Suffolk Archives - Ipswich
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <persname>Batten, Ernest J, fl 1918, farm bailiff and farmer, of Nayland, Suffolk</persname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 239 files
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Received by Suffolk Record Office on 20 July 1978, 14 December 1979 and 28 July 1982
Acc. Nos. 5508, 5678, 7048
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The bulk of the collection consists of the business and personal records of Ernest J. Batten and his family.
The farm account books and farm papers cover, for the most part, the years when Ernest Batten was farm bailiff to the East Anglian Sanatorium Company at Nayland (1918-c.1931) and when he and his family farmed at Goody's Farm, Nayland (c.1931-c.1945) and Wissington Grove, Wissington (c.1945-1982). Members of the family were taken into partnership in 1939 and the firm of E.J. Batten & Co. continued in the Nayland area until March 1982.
The most substantial portion of the letters and other personal papers relates to the period of the First World War. Ernest Batten, managing his father's farm in Gloucestershire, was a Conscientious Objector and joined The Society of Friends at the end of 1916. After being imprisoned in Dartmoor for several months he was employed under the Home Office Scheme on a number of farms in Essex before coming to Nayland.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/d3beac94-9c4f-49d1-a618-826c4eb13f61/
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VARIOUS BLACKSMITHS AND FARMERS.